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Partly Cloudy, Twitter Embarks on Their Cloud Journey
In a recent blog post, Twitter announced the start of their journey, a project known internally as "Partly Cloudy", to the public cloud. The post outlines some of the constraints that have prevented them from doing so in the past and describes why now is a good time to embark on this transformation.
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HashiCorp Releases Nomad 0.9 with Additional Scheduling Features
HashiCorp has released version 0.9 of Nomad, their distributed scheduler platform. This release includes enhancements to the scheduling features that determine how Nomad places applications across the infrastructure. The other major release is the groundwork for a plugin-based feature strategy to enable easier integrations with a number of technologies.
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Fastly Open-Sources Lucet, Its WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime
The Fastly edge cloud platform recently open-sourced Lucet, its native WebAssembly compiler and runtime. Lucet enables edge developers to build custom solutions for the edge at scale without limitations imposed by vendors, programming languages, or application programming interfaces (API).
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Gremlin Announces Free Tier for Their Chaos Experimentation Platform
Gremlin has announced “Gremlin Free”, which provides the ability to run chaos engineering experiments on a free tier of their failure-as-a-service SaaS platform. The current version of the free tier allows the execution of shutdown and CPU attacks on hosts or containers, which can be controlled via a simple web-based user interface, API or CLI.
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JUnit Project Moves to Azure Pipelines for Builds
JUnit, a unit testing framework for Java, is one of the most popular libraries used by Java developers. The JUnit team recently announced they've adopted Azure Pipelines for continuous integration (CI).
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Swim Open Sources Platform That Challenges Conventional Wisdom in Distributed Computing
If one reviews the talks at a modern conference, it'd be reasonable to assume that many of today's software systems are made up of stateless compute, distributed databases, and high-throughput message brokers. Swim recently open-sourced their platform that uses stateful "digital twins" to analyze streaming data in real time without depending on databases, message brokers, app servers, or storage.
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DigitalOcean Announces Partner App Marketplace
DigitalOcean has announced Marketplace, a platform where third-party providers can deliver their software stacks as One-Click Apps. Initially, Marketplace offers a variety of partner offerings, including databases, visualization, and monitoring tools and developer frameworks.
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Google’s Cloud-Native NoSQL Database Cloud Firestore Is Now Generally Available
Google announced that their NoSQL database in the cloud Cloud Firestore is now generally available. With the release, Google is also introducing a few new features, such as a StackDriver integration, bringing the service to more regions, and offering a lower pricing tier.
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AWS App Mesh: Hosted Service Mesh Control Plane for Envoy Proxy
Amazon has released AWS App Mesh, a service mesh that allows developers to standardise how microservices communicate, implement rules for communications between microservices, and capture metrics, logs, and traces directly into AWS services and third-party tools. App Mesh is effectively an AWS-specific hosted control plane for Envoy, an open source service mesh data plane proxy.
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Microsoft Announces New Features and Integrations for Azure Pipelines
At the recent Connect() event, Microsoft announced several new features and integrations with Azure Pipelines. The new features and integrations include an Azure Pipelines extension for Visual Studio Code, management of GitHub Releases, support for IoT projects, and ServiceNow integration.
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Alibaba Cloud Expands Their Presence in the EMEA Region with UK Data Centers
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, announced the opening of two new availability zones in the United Kingdom. With the addition of these availability zones, Alibaba is increasing its presence in the EMEA region.
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Redis 5.0 Released with New "Streams" Data Type
Redis recently announced version 5 of its popular database, 15 months after the release of Redis 4. Probably the most important feature of this version is the support for a new data type, Streams. Sorted set functionality has also improved and Redis modules have also been expanded, with the introduction of Clusters and Timers APIs. LOLWUT and other improvements are reviewed in the article...
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William McKnight on Data Platforms and Creating a Modern Data Architecture
William McKnight gave a keynote presentation last week at Data Architecture Summit 2018 Conference on creating a modern data architecture using different data platforms.
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An Evolution of Chaos Experimentation: Kolton Andrus at ChaosConf 2018
At the inaugural ChaosConf, held in San Francisco, USA, Kolton Andrus presented an evolution of chaos experimentation over the past eight years. He argued that the human and organisational aspects of dealing with failure should not be ignored, and also suggested that tooling should support application- and request-level targeting of failure injection tests in order to minimise the blast radius.
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Kubernetes 1.12 Brings Volume Snapshots, TLS Improvements, and More
The Cloud Native Community Foundation has announced Kubernetes 1.12. This version brings Snapshot and restore volumes, improvements on TLS, Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), topology-aware dynamic provisioning, Advanced Auditing, topology support for Container Storage Interface (CSI) plugin, and more.